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Salut by Jhoanna Lynn Cruz by Filipino Poetry on Feb 9, 2012On our sixth anniversaryyour parents surprised uswith ice cream and cake.You cooked my favoritedish and I brought sweetred wine. We drankto each other’shappiness with a daggergleam in the eye. A toastto a long life, knowingthis would be our last.
When I Talk by Tita Lacambra-Ayala by Filipino Poetry on Feb 8, 2012When I talkTo you and you answerWith a sigh orAsterisk I am atA lossFor words justAs wellAnd then we converseIn longOr shortSilences and a smatteringOf footnotesYou and IWe do not talk anymoreAnd all our asterisksAre turningInto flowers.
Wedding Song by Tita Lacambra-Ayala by Filipino Poetry on Feb 8, 2012The inevitable is true like lily bulbs rooting in the caseimplicit order of armchairs, tables, books, bedin this occupied room. All sounds waved to the seasonsof living and...
Pilgrimage to Antamok by Tita Lacambra-Ayala by Filipino Poetry on Feb 8, 2012No longer great and grand and largerequiring three child steps to the stone onewhich led up to the hospital and mess hallin that small mining town. It had shrunk smallor I had grown. Dark-eyed men at the gatestell me they mine iron now, the goldmust...
Queen by Ronald Baytan by Filipino Poetry on Feb 8, 2012Mama, the rhinestones are falling one by one Because I always put the crown on my headWhen you and Papa are sleeping. Imagine:A fairy at the center stands with her wandThat stirs glowing waves of magic like seaShells in the dark. The crown is divine.
How Our Towns Drown by Gemino Abad by Filipino Poetry on Feb 6, 2012How in thedownpour our towns drown, downstream of doom to sea we are returned,houses and pigs in ceaseless procecessionas skies boom and fall thundering spearsto beat down all curses and tears to tide –among seaweed and driftwood and water hyacinth...
Threshold by Ronald Baytan by Filipino Poetry on Feb 6, 2012Between the terrible easeOf promise and the floweringOf regret, I must lay myself bare:I have learned desireIs a habit, a calling of fleshAnd spirit to repeatPresences, a need forAccumulationOf movements,Of moments.In my room, at the office,Inside th...
He Who Sleeps On My Lap by Ronald Baytan by Filipino Poetry on Feb 5, 2012My friendwho sleeps on my laploves someone else.He says he is a manand a man needs a womanand I disagree.We argue until he growstired of talkingand sleeps on my lapon this chilly night.And I sigh,knowing he lovessomeone elsebut still sleepsgently on...
Tonight I Will Live In Your Skin by Danton Remoto by Filipino Poetry on Feb 3, 2012Tonight I will live in your skin.My breath will begin by floweringin the caves of your ears.Your face will glow like a fireflyas fires burn from our lips.The vase of your neck will whiten,like water sad and luminous.My fingers will gently graphthe ri...
Landscape II by Carlos Angeles by Filipino Poetry on Feb 3, 2012Sun in the knifed horizon bleeds the sky,Spilling a peacock stain upon the sand,Across some murdered rocks refuse to die.It is your absence touches my sad handsBlinded like flags in the wreck of air.And catacombs of cloud enshroud the coolAnd calm in...
